I'd love to sea you again

I can not see a lobster without thinking of the Friends TV show..."You're her lobster" anyone else do the same?

I just love this super cute little stamp set from Create a smile called Sending Sunshine. I just couldn't resist pairing him with the stitched circle dies from Heffy Doodle and making the card into a shaker card using the Heffy Doodle foam sheets along with the thick acetate. I could die cut the same circle out of the foam and the acetate so that there are no little gaps in the foam making my shaker super secure.

For my shaker elements I used the new sparkle mix from Heffy Doodle called Covesea. 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

 Beyond the Blue - Glitter and sequins

Colour crazy challenge - Anything coloured goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Time for a me day I think

 

 I am taking some time out today to be able to do some crafting. It has snowed a little bit here again but not settled and the rain that followed it has insured that there is no white left to be seen. 

I am still loving these snow men from the very talented Amy Young of Sweet November Stamps though. They really do bring a smile to my face :)

I have teamed this one from the Drop it like it's cold stamp set with a die called It's Your Day from Time for tea designs. I also used one of the new Time for Tea stencils in the back ground to add a few stars to distress my inking. The stencil is called Falling Stars and I used Squeezed Lemonade distress ink along with a beautiful blender brush to colour up the white paper. 

As normal for me I have finished the card by adding some sparkle and texture with some Nuvo drops. And I added the little raccoon on to the card with an action wobble just to give an extra fun element to it :D

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Cardz 4 Guyz - Let it snow

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

Shopping Your Stash - What's New With You? (use your new stash)

Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Try it on Tuesday - Use a positive or uplifting quote

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

I am giving thanks for you all

 

Hi everyone,

This is DT Amy here :) I am just moved to sunny Whitby this weekend. It has been hectic and tiring but it is done. I am so lucky that there are so many people who helped me make it possible. So my card today is a thanks card. I am so thankful for all of you for your kind words of encouragement as I haven't been able to be around here as much as I wanted to be. You all inspire me so much with all your makes.

 

For this card I used the super cute Woodland Critters stamp set and the beautiful Autumn Leaves stencil. First I inked through it with some distress ink and the Beautiful Blender Brushes. Then I also used the stencil to emboss the pattern on the kraft card circle. I cut the circle using the Circles Of Love nesting dies. To finish it off I used the Thanks sentiment die and as normal I couldn't resist adding in an action wobble for the foxes little head :D 

This stamp set is back in stock in the Time For Tea store and you can get 10% off using my code T4TAMY10

 

Huge hugs to you all

 

Amy xx

Hogs and kisses

 

 

Have you seen this adorable new hogs and kisses stamp set from Time for Tea designs? It is just so perfect for a whole load of occasions and I new I wanted to team it up with their Speech bubble stamp set as well. I stamped the missing you speech bubble in grey Catherine Pooler ink all over the card and used the ink to make a perfectly colour matched layer to use for my matting and layering by inking the edges. I added a mix of nuvo glitter drops to add some sparkle and a pop of colour :D

    

 

I am entering these cards for the following challenges:

  

LeAnns world 101 - Anything goes

The creative crafters - Anything goes

The happy craft challenge - Anything goes 

Love to craft - Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

A fairy new release

 

Seriously how adorable is this new release from the amazing Sweet November?? I am so in love with the super cute fairies from the Falling into fairwees clear stamp set. I coloured this cutie up with copics and then put her on an action wobble to pop her up from the card and give her some movement :D

The sentiment is from the Time for tea Speech bubbles stamp set and I stamped it in grey Catherine pooler ink before using the coordinating speech bubble dies to cut it out. The stencil I used for the back ground is also from time for tea designs and has the best name ever....tropic like it's hot. I inked through the stencil using the amazing super soft Time for tea beautiful blender brushes and kraftin' kimmie hybrid inks. 

To finish it off I added a variety of nuvo drops to add some sparkle, shine and texture :D

I am entering these cards for the following challenges:

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Crafts galore encore - Anything goes 

The happy craft challenge - Anything goes 

Love to craft - Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Bubbly baby Mertot

I am still so happy to be showing this next cutie as GDT for this weeks Sweet November release. This adorable bubble mertot is called May Mertot and is available in the Sweet November store now as a digi stamp so you can get her straight away. For me this bubble was crying out to be made into a shaker card.

I have coloured this cutie with the following copics:

Skin: E33, E21, E00

Hair: C9, C7, C5, C3

Tail: YR27, YR68, YR15

Toy: BG49, BG23, G00

Bubble background: BG15, G00

As normal for me I had to cover her tail in spectrum noir crystal clear sparkle pen and glossy accents.

I cut her out using Heffy Doodles stitched circles and did a couple of smaller stitched circles as extra bubbles that I then added some whatcha saying? sentiments to. For the shaker itself I cut another same sized circle from acetate and to finish it cut a thin circle frame in foam and in black card to just cover up the foam and just edge all the stitched circles/ bubbles.

For the background I used the Create a smile geometrics stamp set with the Altenew sweet dreams ink cubes to just give a bubbly background.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Make my Monday - For a baby

Ike's World - R is for round or dots

Crafty Creations - Anything goes

The sisterhood of crafters - Favorite technique (I love stamping/ making back grounds)

Little Red Wagon - Use backing paper or make your own. (I have made my own)

Cute card thursday - Anything goes

Southern Girls - Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Dream Big

I think I am addicted to this Dream big sentiment die from Time for Tea designs. It could make a great card all on it's own.

I made this inky background at the weekend. I used wilted violet distress oxide ink to make an ombre down the paper. Then I flicked it with some water before adding some wilted violet distress oxide spray over it. I coloured in this adorable super girl from the Heffy Doodle super dudes stamp set with spectrum noir tri-blends. I attached her with an action wobble and then added some nuvo drops all around the card for added dimension.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges - Add some sparkle

Simon Says Stamp - Make your own background

Pammies Inky Pinkies - Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Interactive fun

This little alien has been crying out to be part of an interactive card for way too long. So I have finally got him onto one. This card was so much fun to make. I have coloured all the elements which are from a mix of Heffy doodle Spaced out and You're weird stamp sets with spectrum noir tri-blend markers and used the coordinating dies for the you're weird and spaced out sets to cut them out. Then I added glossy accents to the port hole on the space ship and covered the earth in glossy accents. I gave the alien a googly eye and fixed the space ship on an action wobble to give some more dimension.

For the back ground I used a mix of squeezed lemonade and fossilized amber distress oxides and then used the stargazer background die to cut the stars out of a piece of dark blue card. For a little added something I also used a crystal clear sparkle pen to add some shine to the blue card. I really hope this card makes you smile :)

I am entering it for the following challenges:

Heffy Doodlers FB group - Happy mail

The house that stamps built - Anything goes

Sisterhood of crafters - Favorite technique (making an interactive card. I love using action wobbles and googly eyes they always make me smile)

Stampotique - Anything goes

Fairy fun

This is the first time I have made a shadow box card and I have to say that I loved it! I used the Time for tea box clever die to give me the base and the layers in between and it made the whole thing so easy to do. I love how it looks like a little scene.

OK so for this I used a range of other time for tea goodies as well, The super cute fairies and mushroom house are from the Fairy garden stamp set and then I added some extra little mushrooms and flowers from the Hip hop hooray stamp set. I coloured them all with Spectrum noir tri-blends and fussy cut them all out. For the shadow box itself I used the Scene it stencil to do the sky and tumbled glass distress oxide. The grass I used a Heffy doodle grassy lass die to cut the grass shape and then inked it with a mix of twisted citron and mowed lawn distress oxide.

I am entering this card for the following challenges: 

The paper girls - May day photo inspiration (I used the colours and some flowers)

Dare 2B Artzy - In the garden

 A Place to start - Create a custom background

All fun challenges - Anything goes

Lil' patch of crafty friends - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

Crafty Animals - Anything goes

Hope to sea you soon

I could send this card to so many people at the moment. I am really loving having the extra time to be able to craft but I am missing seeing people too. I hope you are all keeping safe.

For this card I have used a whole range of fun Heffy Doodle products. The back ground I inked with tumbled glass, mermaid lagoon and blueprint sketch distress oxides through the bubble waves stencil. 

The shaker itself I made using the tag along die. This die makes shakers so simple as you can just cut the front, back, acetate and I even used it to cut the foam frame so it all fitted together perfectly! 

The adorable shark is from the oceans of love stamp set as is the sentiment. For the background in the shaker I again did some ink blending with the same colours but this time I used the rays the roof stencil before adding all my little shaker bits. I coloured the shark with Nuvo markers.

I cut one of the thinnest stitched strips of ease and embossed my sentiment on it with some opaque bright white Wow! embossing powder then finished the whole card off by adding a few gold coast nuvo drops. 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

A Place to start - Create a custom background 

Make my Monday - Tone on tone background

All fun challenges - Anything goes

Lil' patch of crafty friends - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

Crafty Animals - Anything goes

Creative craft cottage - Make it masculine 

Dies R Us - Seas the day

Hello sunshine!

Wow! the weather here in the UK is amazing today. I can't believe it is a bank holiday weekend and there is actually sun :D

I hope you are all having a good weekend.

I got some time to craft and have been playing with some of the newest Heffy Doodle release. I am loving this "Hello" die. I couldn't resist the "You're weird" stamp set when I saw it and the moon and this little cutie were just calling out to be coloured. I coloured the moon and the little space critter with Spectrum Noir tri-blend markers. I have to say they are a lot easier to carry a set of around than the spectrum noir illustrators.  

I used the following markers for this make:

Moon -  Brown Grey

Critter - Ice Grey and blue turquoise. 

For the background I used 3 distress oxides, Tumbled glass, Peacock feathers and Chipped sapphire. I spritzed them and then added some dots of sparkle with a wink of stella brush pen. Then I mounted that on some navy blue card. The Hello I cut twice, once in white and then in the navy blue. The white die cut I added some more distress oxides to. I used Squeezed lemonade and fosilized amber to give it some colour, and then layered the inked one on top of the navy one slightly off center so that it looks like a shadow. I also added a touch of wink of stella to it for that bit more sparkle. For the finishing touch I put the little space critter on an action wobble so he moves around :D

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Colour crazy challenge - Anything goes

Aud sentiment - Masculine and a sentiment

I was going to throw the left overs from the navy blue Hello die away when I got inspired by the weather to make this next card. I used some white card that I again added some sqeezed lemonade distress oxide to just so it isn't such a bright white and has a bit of texture. Then I stuck the negative image of the Hello to it. Using a white pen I added some dots around the word and a frame. The back ground I went for 3 distress oxides ( squeezed lemonade, mustard seed and spiced marmalade) to ink through the "rays the roof" stencil. I finished the sentiment by using part of one of the sentiment in the "Quack me up" stamp set stamped in chipped sapphire distress oxide. The Hello sentiment I put on with foam pads so it stands out a bit from the rest of the card.

I hope you like both my creations and follow my little blog.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Alphabet challenge - K is for Kind thoughts

CAS on Friday - Use a stencil

Swing by

I had so much fun creating this interactive swinging card. I love this adorable "Wingman" set from Heffy Doddle. I mirror stamped it so I could stick them back to back. That way when the perch swings around you can see the parrot on both sides.

I coloured this cutie in with the following Spectrum noir illustrator markers:

Perch: IG3, EB2

Beak: GY3,CT4

Feathers: DR4,CR10 and GY3,CT4

I used more Heffy Doodle goodies ( stitched circle dies ) to make the circle hole in the card and the frame around the hole which I then made dots around using Nuvo crystal drops.   I used the Heffy Doodle stencil Cross walk and cracked pistachio distress ink to create the striped paper and then stamped a sentiment from the wingman set to finish it off.

There are so many friends that I don't catch up with enough so I think I could do with making some more of these!

I am entering this card for the following challenges:
Allsorts - Feathered friends